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The Cool Thing About Prince's "contractual obligation filling" Albums "The Black Album" "Come" "Chaos And Disorder" "The Vault: Old Friends For Sale" All three are amazingly well put together albums. Prince was an albums guy and you can tell. The Black Album was always a completely planned album but the others are really compilations yet he sound and tone of these albums feel as if these were actual albums he wanted to put put as is. These are damn good albums. The dark vibe on "Come" would have been conflicted had he used some of "the gold experience" tracks on there like "Endorphinmachine". I even think "Dolphin" would have felt out of place on there. Both Chaos and Vault stick to their vibe. Lately I've come to appreciate them. It was hard to do back in the day when it seemed like new albums were coming out every 3 months and you didn't get a chance to reallty get into each one. | |
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Mostly you are right but every prince album has some songs which dont quite fit that seamlessly with the rest On black album its w2ril On come its the too perky race and maybe space too On c&d its i rock therefore i am (ragga chatting on a prince album, a rock record at that . Why?!) | |
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I agree with you. I love these albums.
The one I keep going back to more than any of them is The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale. It flows really well. When the Light Go Down, which I can't say enough, is one my fave songs, period.
I've liked Chaos since day one.
Come is ok. I am not a fan of the WAY too long title track. But the rest is good. Letitgo is another fave. That song should've been a hit.
I don't consider the Black Album as a contractual album (even tho technically it is). I consider it an 80s album that extends the SOTT album sound/vibe. | |
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Throwing it out there but The Vault is really the only obligatory compilation here. The rest were projects he actually spent a fair amount of time on - in the case of Come, it went through countless iterations. C&D also has alternate configurations. TBA was going to be an actual album in his prime. | |
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I near shit myself every time I listen to The Vault album for the first second or two. It's mastered awfully loud isn't it? Formerly TheDigitalGardener etc. | |
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Chaos and Disorder and The Vault Old friends 4 sale should not have been "Contractual obligation filling" albums. They're really good. | |
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TrivialPursuit said:
I believe that, at the time, Prince had said he delivered The Vault 1-3 to WB. And the theory is that that panned out as OF4S and C&D being delivered at the same time and WB waiting to release it because of a lukewarm response at the label. They kept it in the pocket to sabotage his next major label release. Spoiler alert, WB: no one cared about either OF4S or Rave, lol. There's that super forensic examination of that period and I believe it delves into what Vault #3 was (I honestly forget - I also forget the site but I think scififilmnerd maintains it?). Edit: a word. [Edited 8/18/22 12:01pm] | |
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Other than the black album I thought the remaining were generally prince fodder; whatever was lying around put on cd and classed as an album for nothing more than contractual purposes. The vault sums this up perfectly. | |
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Genesia said:
That's how ya know Prince supervised the mastering. Way way too loud. Five Women's intro hits are SHARP. That said, it's a great album. Even the I'll Do Anything stuff feels at home there. The whole album blew my young mind. | |
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Thanks for your replies. I'm convinced Prince didn't want to give them hit singles but couldn't help himself but give them good albums because he was an artist. | |
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They are. Welcome to "the org", laytonian… come bathe with me. | |
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come was prince's response to madonna's erotica. two very connected albums. | |
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Weren't all his albums put out as part of a contract and therefore contractual obligations? The orger formerly known as https://prince.org/profil...nglishGent | |
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http://www.princevault.com/index.php?title=Album:_Come
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotica_(Madonna_album)#Background
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TrivialPursuit said:
Funkybaby got u there. I thought you were a Madge Stan! Come does indeed feel like a response to Erotica. Not some 1:1 direct reply, but goes without saying that Madonna and Prince continued to inspire one another as the years went on (Don't Play Me, Don't Tell Me/Music sounding distinctly like a Prince song, etc). | |
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also, funny how madonna did her sex book, and then shortly after, prince decides its time to do a photography book himself... (albeit not quite as attention grabbing as madonnas). | |
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Yes but some folks have an ability to "get the point" without it being sppon fed to them. | |
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TrivialPursuit said:
No, it's nearly autumn, ya goof. It's long floppy knit sweaters in warmish colors and pajama bottoms. | |
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